Deleuze and sex / edited by Frida Beckman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Beckman, Frida, Author.

Contributor:

Beckman, Frida.

Series:

Deleuze connections.

Deleuze connections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995.

Deleuze, Gilles.

Sex--Philosophy.

Sex.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 244 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This collection of essays offers a fresh and new philosophical approach to the study of sex and sexuality as practice in the philosophy of Deleuze.

Contents:

Introduction. What is sex? : an introduction to the sexual philosophy of Gilles Deleuze / Frida Beckman

Alien sex : Octavia Butler and Deleuze and Guattari's polysexuality / Ronald Bogue

Heterotica : the 1000 tiny sexes of Anaïs Nin / Anna Powell

Haemosexuality / Gretchen Riordan

Disability, Deleuze and sex / Daniel Goodley and Rebecca Lawthom

Tongue and trigger : Deleuze's erotics of the uncanny / Cara Judea Alhadeff

(Hetero)sexing the child : Hans, Alice and the repressive hypothesis / Catherine Driscoll, Carina Garland and Anna Hickey-Moody

The 'non-human sex' in sexuality : 'what are your special desiring-machines?' / Gregg Lambert

Deleuze and selfless sex : undoing Kant's Copernican revolution / Jeffrey A. Bell

A preface to pornotheology : Spinoza, Deleuze, and the sexing of angels / Charlie Blake

Encounters of ecstasy / Patricia MacCormack

Beyond sexuality : of love, failure and revolutions / Aislinn O'Donnell.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613252760

9780748671755

0748671757

9781283252768

1283252767

9780748647514

0748647511

OCLC:

749264644